Boris Sokoloff (1889–1979[1]) was a Russian and later French politician, medical doctor, soldier, cancer researcher, and author.
After graduating from the University of St. Petersburg, Sokoloff helped draft the All-Russian Constitution that governed the Russian Constituent Assembly, the legislative body that would ultimately be overthrown by the All-Russian Central Executive Committee led by Lenin.
[2][better source needed] He was sentenced to death, but survived and escaped from Russia.
[3] In 1956, Sokoloff published The White Nights: Pages From a Russian Doctor's Notebook, a memoir of his participation in the failed effort to stop the rise of the Bolsheviks in Russia.
At the invitation of the Rockefeller Institute, he relocated to the United States, where he worked at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, the University of Washington Cancer Research Center, and the Cancer Research Laboratory at Florida Southern College.